Age Quotes

Joe moore - marriage is like a dollar bill. you cannot spend...
Paulson frenckne - management an activity or art where those who...
Nothing is harder to direct than a man in prosperity; nothing more easily managed that one is adversity.
Plutarch
It is one of the maladies of our age to profess a frenzied allegiance to truth in unimportant matters, to refuse consistently to face her where graver issues are at stake.
Janos Arnay
In Paris they simply stared when I spoke to them in French I never did succeed in making those idiots understand their language.
Mark Twain
Courage means going against majority opinion in the name of the truth.
V? lcav Havel, parade, Times Picayune
We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
Plato
Is not marriage an open question, when it is alleged, from the beginning of the world, that such who are in the institution wish to get out and such as are out wish to get in.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Some people talk because they think sound is more manageable than silence.
Margaret Halsey
He that embarks on the voyage of life will always wish to advance rather by the impulse of the wind than the strokes of the oar; and many foulder in their passage; while they lie waiting for the gale.
Johnson
Friendships, like marriages, are dependent on avoiding the unforgivable.
John D. MacDonald
We are not without accomplishment. We have managed to distribute poverty equally.
Nguyen Co Thatch, Vietnamese foreign ministe
However mean your life is, meet it and live it do not shun it and call it hard names. Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage. Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends. Things do not change, we change. Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts.
Henry David Thoreau
Stone walls do not a prison make, nor iron bars a cage.
Richard Lovelace, To Althea from Prison
Solon used to say that speech was the image of actions... that laws were like cobwebs, - - For that if any trifling or powerless thing fell into them, they held it fast while if it were something weightier, it broke through them and was off.
Laertius Diogenes
The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray, and the advantage of science is that it is not emotional.
Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
We can gain no lasting peace if we approach it with suspicion and mistrust or with fear. We can gain it only if we proceed with the understanding, the confidence, and the courage which flow from conviction.
Franklin D. Roosevelt, Fourth Inaugural Address, Jan. 20, 1945
A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a Prologue to Farce, or a Tragedy, or perhaps both. Knowledge will forever govern ignorance. and a people who mean to be their own Governors, must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.
James Madison
Republicans understand the importance of bondage between a mother and child.
Dan Quayle
Time bandits - benson, you are so free of the ravages of...
We will not be driven by fear into an age of unreason if we... remember that we are not descended from fearful men, not from men who feared to write, to speak, to associate and to defend causes which were, for the moment, unpopular.
Edward R. Murrow
The Net interprets censorship as damage, and routes around it.
John Gilmore
Never make fun of someone who speaks broken English. It means they know another language.
H. Jackson Brown Jr.
Boys will be boys, and so will a lot of middle - Aged men.
Kin Hubbard
I shall be telling this with a sighSomewhere ages and ages henceTwo roads diverged in a wood, and I - - I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference.
Robert Frost
Your soul is oftentimes a battlefield, upon which your reason and your judgment wage war against passion and your appetite.
Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet
No one becomes forty without incredulity and a sense of outrage.
Clifford Bax
Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime. Teach a man to create an artificial shortage of fish and he will eat steak.
Jay Leno
Most of us, swimming against the tides of trouble the world knows nothing about, need only a bit of praise or encouragement - And we will make the goal.
Jerome P. Fleishman
The great tragedy of science - - The slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.
Thomas Huxley
Turn your midlife crisis to your own advantage by making it a time for renewal of your body and mind, rather than stand by helplessly and watch them decline.
Jane E. Brody
Undoubtedly, we become what we envisage.
Claude M. Bristol
The softest things in the world overcome the hardest things in the world. Through this I know the advantage of taking no action.
Lao Tzu
Imagine a school with children that can read or write, but with teachers who cannot, and you have a metaphor of the Information Age in which we live.
Peter Cochrane
A program is a spell cast over a computer, turning input into error messages.
Anon.
The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.
Mignon McLaughlin
Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who would want to live in an institution.
Henry Louis Mencken
It is a mistake to regard age as a downhill grade toward dissolution. The reverse is true. As one grows older, one climbs with surprising strides.
George Sand
No man fully capable of his own language ever masters another.
George Bernard Shaw
A DAY IN THE LIFE OF A DOE Unbearably lovely music is heard as the curtain rises, and we see the woods on a summer afternoon. A fawn dances on and nibbles slowly at some leaves. He drifts lazily through the soft foliage. Soon he starts coughing and drops dead.
Woody Allen, Without Feathers